Liberty to Serve

Each day I am confronted by well intentioned, clear thinking individuals, in print or on TV, who are either trying to rouse me to action or who are just reporting on what they believe to be the destruction of our republic, the United States of America by Marxist and Socialist politicians, plans and policies. I am not wise enough to know whether they are correct. But this is how I feel about my country.

I believe that God Almighty, the creator of the heavens and the earth does not sleep and is not mocked. There is nothing new under the sun and no actions among the children of men of which he is unaware. I believe that it is and has been his intention to do good for and with America for the sake of his Son Jesus Christ and the gospel of salvation in that name since our founding and that his intentions have not changed only our commitments.

Therefore no matter how inflated my money becomes or if I have to close down the businesses I currently own and steward, laying off my employees and losing my house and car, I have faith that God will provide food and water and shelter. But even if that fails and I were to fall into poverty and suffering beyond which I can currently imagine as a child of the post World War II generation of prosperity, I have a future home prepared for me in the heavens which neither gold nor silver could buy and which neither rust nor moth can decay.

Because of this foundation, if the opportunity is present I can go forth confidently, in humility, in the face of Marxist or Socialist ideologues and institutions, economic malaise and moral decay, reaching out to others of like mind with whom, together, I can pick up the worn out tools used by my predecessors which now lie abandoned by the roadside and with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other I can utilize what time is given me and what strength is afforded me to start rebuilding the walls of liberty against the horde of misguided religious zealotry that is angrily amassing followers in our world. And if I must die by any other means than old age lying in bed, then I choose to die with a sword in my hand, a prayer in my heart and a victory cry on my tongue.

Use not liberty as an occasion to the flesh but in love serve one another.

@ 2009 Joseph Ricciardi Jr